GPSmap76CSx vs. eTrex Vista HCx

Thibaud Taudin Chabot wrote:


Well, small distances won't hinder it. I'm talking miles. Like when I
take mine to our camp which is about 180 miles from home I have to
recalibrate it.

As for the maps, what I did was start a mapsource session and selected
all of the City Nav areas, topos, routes, tracks, waypoints that I
wanted/used and then did a "save as" and I saved it in something like
Master_file

I also bought a 2Gb Sandisk microsd card which holds all of my data with
room to spare. I have everything from the Canadian boarder and the
Atlantic as far west as (and including) Ohio and south to South Carolina
for CN and large portions of pa, ny, and me topos loaded. No problem.

If I want a subset for some reason, sending waypoints/tracks/routes,
etc. I start two mapsource sessions. Load my master in one and use
copy/paste to select what I want to separate out and put those into the
empty MS session. Save that to a different file (xyz.gdb) and send that
to whomever I want.

I hope that all makes sense but I'd suggest getting the 2Gb card -
it'll make your life alot easier.

--
Steve

Thibaud Taudin Chabot wrote:
[snip]

You can retrieve the map set (not the actual maps) in the receiver with
MapSource.

I have a folder for map sets where I store a few configurations as
Steve suggested. Sometimes I just upload the map set from the receiver,
modify it and then send the new set of maps to the receiver.

--
Dan

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